API Analytics for Product Managers

Beginner

126 Lessons

15h

Certificate of Completion

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This course includes

31 Quizzes

This course includes

31 Quizzes

Course Overview

This course will guide you through managing APIs as products, building customer empathy, designing metrics for measuring success, and identifying KPIs to inform your product strategy. This course is divided into four parts. You’ll begin by learning about APIs as products and understanding how large the market is for API products. Next, you learn about product management concepts and how these apply to APIs. Then, you will learn about the primary customer of APIs—the developer. Next, you will be introduced...Show More

What You'll Learn

An understanding of key API metrics

The ability to utilize API metrics to grow your business

The ability to manage APIs as a product

The ability to build customer empathy for API products

In-depth knowledge of design metrics for measuring APIs from the perspective of infrastructure, product, and business

The ability to identify the right key performance indicators (KPIs) for API products to build a product strategy

What You'll Learn

An understanding of key API metrics

Course Content

Introduction to the course

About the Course

Course Overview

Part 1: The API Landscape

Introduction to the API Landscape

API as a Product

Introduction to API as a Product Building with APIs Establishing APIs as Products API Access Protocols and API Types API Stakeholders Notable API Products That Are Shaping the API Landscape Summary Quiz Yourself on API as a Product

API Product Management

Introduction to API Product Management The Role of the Product Manager Methods to Effectively Exercise Product Management Role Types of Product Management Roles The Responsibilities of an API Product Manager Summary Quiz Yourself on API Product Management

API Life Cycle and Maturity

Introduction to API Life Cycle and Maturity The API Product Lifecycle API Development Workflow API Governance API Maturity Summary Quiz Yourself on API Life Cycle and Maturity

Building and Managing API Products

10 Lessons

Growth for API Products

7 Lessons

Support Models for API Products

7 Lessons

Part 2: Understanding the Customers

1 Lesson

10.

Walking in the Customer’s Shoes

6 Lessons

11.

Customer Expectations and Goals

6 Lessons

12.

Components of the API Experience

8 Lessons

13.

Part 3: Deep Dive into Key Metrics for API Products

1 Lesson

14.

Infrastructure Metrics

7 Lessons

15.

API Product Metrics

10 Lessons

16.

Business Metrics

8 Lessons

17.

Part 4: Setting a Cohesive Analytics Strategy

1 Lesson

18.

Drawing the Big Picture with Data

8 Lessons

19.

Keeping Metrics Honest

6 Lessons

20.

Counter Metrics to Avoid Blind Spots

6 Lessons

21.

Decision-making with Data

7 Lessons

22.

Conclusion

2 Lessons

Course Author

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Anthony Walker

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Emma Bostian 🐞

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Evan Dunbar

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Anthony Walker

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Emma Bostian 🐞

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